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Subject: BASICS OF THE FORTH LANGU
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Date: 7 Jan 90 02:07:20 GMT
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 Date: 01-06-90 (04:34)              Number: 1539 (Echo)
   To: STEVE PALINCSAR               Refer#: 1525
 From: ARCHIE WARNOCK                  Read: NO
 Subj: BASICS OF THE FORTH LANGU     Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE

 SP>I for one am getting a wee bit tired of the "forth is dead" weeping 
 SP>that's been coming thru from the Unix nets.  I'm not ready to bury it.  
 SP>Not to say that I think forth will ever put any of the other languages 
 SP>out of business, either -- but who said it had to?  Forth, I'm sure, 
 SP>will never in a million years ever become as ubiquitous as either C or 
 SP>Fortran.  To me that's no tragedy.

 Well said, my friend.  Frankly, I really don't care if anyone else uses
 Forth.  As Ray Duncan (I think) said, if no one else uses it, it just
 remains my advantage.  In the past couple of years, I've found that I
 don't really care if it gets "popular" or even "standardized."  I'll use
 it anyway, whenever it's the best tool for the job.  And it frequently
 is!
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